RPC IV.2, 3111 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 3111 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Mysia
City Pergamum
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Magistrate Marcus Aelius Glykonianos (strategos)
Issue Issue 1
Dating c. 180–182
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔΟϹ
Edition Αὐτο(κράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρή(λιος) Κόμοδος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Commodus (short beard) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from front
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Μ Α ΓΛΥΚΩΝΙΑΝοΥ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ Β ΝΕοΚοΡΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ στρ(ατηγοῦ) Μ(άρκου) Α(ἰλίου) Γλυκωνιανοῦ Περγαμηνῶν βʹ νεωκόρων
Translation under the strategos Marcus Aelius Glykonianos of the Pergamenes, twice neocorate
Reverse design Asclepius standing on base, facing, holding serpent-staff; between two centaurs moving outwards, heads inwards, each centaur holding long torch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 45 mm
Average weight 45.56 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference Weisser 1170
Specimens 5 (3 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     V: GR 16457 (Medaillon) von Fritze, Pergamon, p. 48, pl. V.9 (rev.)
2 2     ✸ L: 1979-1-1-1604 vA 7508 = Kraft, p. 187, pl. 88.14a = Weisser 1170, pl. 20
3 3     Kroll, Agora 878, pl. 29 = F. Kleiner, Greek and Roman Coins in the Athenian Agora (Princeton, 1975), fig. 25, obverse lightly double struck
4 4     P: 1325 (Medaillon) SNG 2165 = W. Wroth, NC 1882, p. 43, pl. II.10 (rev.), tooled, reverse legend: ΝΕΩΚοΡΩΝ
5 5     Numismatic Fine Arts 5 (23/02/1978), 316